NIH Will Seek New Rules on Conflicts of Interest

Submitted by Doug Lederman on December 22, 2009 - 3:00am

The National Institutes of Health is planning to propose new rules for researchers receiving its grants, requiring that they disclose financial ties to medical entities and barring them from publishing articles that are "ghostwritten" by drug company officials, USA Today[1] reported. The proposed rules follow Congressional inquiries into reports of conflicts of interest by some prominent biomedical researchers.